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Comment by Geyah

These will undoubtedly be the faction you must raise to obtain your new Serpent Mounts in Mists of Pandaria.

Comment by Nubnut

So, I'm assuming that this will be a return to something like the Netherwing quests in BC? What with doing dailly quests to raise rep to gain access to various mounts.

Comment by Makaronien

This is the faction that you will be questing for when you raise your very own Cloud Serpent mount.To aquire this mount you will have to continuously do daily quests for this faction which is located in the east of Jade Forest.

Comment by vindurza

disappointingly not join able at 90 in the current beta

Comment by Minostaurens

you need to be exalted to purchase the cloud serpent riding ?

Comment by DragonSlayer01

The worst part about this is Cloud Serpent Riding isn't account wide which means you have to grind exalted on every single toon to use your account wide Cloud Serpent mounts.

Comment by jellyfinger

At what level can you begin raising reputation with the cloud serpents, 85, or 90?

Comment by halflife

It's possible to get exalted in a couple hours, I hit a streak and found about 30 eggs in about half an hour then they started respawning pretty slow but I eventually got the rest of the eggs needed for exalted.

Comment by Godmyster

But is it a quest that you have to accept or you just randomly find them and turn them in somehow? ive been looking for 1 hour and found nothing.

Comment by Godmyster

But is it a quest that you have to accept or you just randomly find them and turn them in somehow? ive been looking for 1 hour and found nothing.

Comment by Godmyster

Anyone know the exact spawn rate? i just found some eggs and wanted to know how long will they take to spawn now?

Comment by Pikachoodle

I wish the eggs were more spread out because it's such a small area. It's a pain in the backside and I can't be bothered doing it when you're competing against 10 or so other people who don't seem to ever sleep.

Definately worth coming here right after a server restart if you can. Even if you're not actually camping them. I did and most of the eggs were up straight away. A quick fly around got me 6 eggs. Not bad for a quick rep boost.

Comment by fred5577

Could some1 explain me where that eggs are spawning?

Comment by dipiddy

The repeatable quest (no restriction on how many times a day you can turn this in), is called Onyx to Goodness. This is just like Netherwing eggs all over again for those who are familiar with that reputation. All you need to do for this quest is locate Onyx Egg on the tall mountain looking areas around Windward Isle and turn them in. They are not unique (you can carry more than one at a time) and just turn in ~40 of them if you wish rather than doing dailies (if you can find that many).

Your Hatchling will provide you with two daily quests per day, such as: -Catch! (Similar to Midsummer Torch Tossing) -Sweet as HoneyAfter completing these dailes, a third daily quest will become available from Elder Anli. Having completed that, she will then inform you that there is nothing else you can do for your hatchling today.

Stage 2: They grow up so fast!

Once you reach Revered status, you will be sent to meet with Instructor Windblade who will provide you with racing dailies. These dailies are similar to the netherwing dailies, and require you to guide your now adolescent serpent through a race course.

Method A: If you are a patient person, or simply do not have lengthy amounts of time each day, you may wish to continue pursuing dailies and grow your cute hatchling into a majestic dragon.

Method B:Onyx To Goodness is a repeatable quest for 500 OotCS rep where you turn in Onyx Egg to Elder Anli. The quest will appear after you've found an egg. This method will allow you to circumvent dailies, and unlock your very own cloud serpent mount in a matter of hours (If you are lucky!).

These eggs are located around the tall mountain areas of Windward Isle. (Ospreyfalcon has provided an excellent blog with co-ordinates / screenshots of egg locations here)

Note: These eggs do not sparkle, so you'll have to look closely! Keep in mind that you will be competing with other players, so stay patient!

Good luck, and enjoy your Cloud Serpent mount!

Comment by djaye

Is there another prerequisite for the starting quest? ive turned lvl 90, but the npc at shrine of two moons still doesnt give starting quest? and there are no npc's near the arboretum that give any quests.

Comment by Golthus

My newly hatched egg didn't give any quests, have i missed something?

Comment by macklelol

If you have at least 525 skill in your secondary professions, you gain access to more dailies that give reputation for this faction.

Each of these quests give 125 reputation, so being able to complete all of these dailies will net you an extra 500 reputation before bonuses.

EDIT: As of October 12, you no longer need any secondary professions to accept these quests, but you will still need the profession to complete them.

Comment by Luada

Hello :D

I was wondering how many days will take to get those gorgeous cloud serpents only doing the daily quests?

Comment by Zephytoth

Once you hit Exalted, you will get your chosen dragon for free, and you will be able to buy the other 2 dragons from the quartermaster for 2,100g (that is with guild perks).

Comment by Velren

how are the races managed? i'm halfway through revered and i hate the egg farming on my high pop server.

when do they unlock or what is the prerequisite?

Comment by videodrome

I put together a short video here detailing the best route and strategy to help you get the upper hand against people competing for Onyx Eggs. Hope it helps :)

Comment by Jollygood

When I was logged in last night, people in general chat were asking about finding eggs and I was not sure what was going on. I love this site because now I know what they were talking about.

That said, having done the Netherwing rep grind and knowing what cross region zones is doing to finding things in-game, I think I will continue with the quest grind (and not sweat it too much on egg hunting).

I could spend 15 minutes looking for an egg that gives 500 rep or I could spend 15 minutes actively questing to get 450 rep and a bag full of random greys that I can sell, a green or two that I can auction off, and a mote or three. Right now, I'm crazy for motes because I want to get patterns for tailoring and build various engineering gadgets. I do want the rep, but I also want to level professions. I agree with the posters about how nicely the dailies dovetail with other professions. I'm leveling fishing, cooking and archaeology and those quests are useful.

However, I can see the appeal of just collecting eggs if you want that dragon NAO, so I am certainly not knocking it. I'm just offering the quests have value in a different way.

--ETA

Edit to change that with the human rep bonus and guild bonus, I get 540 on non-trivial quests. Also, more people are at level and flying, which has made the general chat very contentious and tense.

Comment by Aspyn

Once you turn exalted, you have access the "so cute, yet so epic" battle pet hatclings:

Comment by snejkajz

Hi, does anyone know anything about this dragon Cinder who is at Arboretum aswell? He can't be bought at the moment and I couldn't find any information about him so far.

Comment by rojarachel

Cinder is an Onyx Cloud Serpent, which is available from the quest Surprise Attack! You must be exalted with the Shado-Pan and revered with the Golden Lotus to receive the quest.

Comment by Abigaelle

A very interesting and fun reputation, and of course a shiny mount !

You can be exalted in less than 2 weeks only with the dailys :

- you start this reputation at honored after following the quest line leading you from The vale of eternal blossom to the Arboretum in the Jade forest- you begin each level of reputation with ~20% rep already earned (via the quests introducing you to your new level)- 2200 reputation / day (with guild perks) minimum with all the dailys- each egg grant you 550 rep (with guild perks)- sometimes, you can see quests for the race and others that consist to beat other students. When I say "sometimes", it's mostly rare- note that the eggs respawn with a realm restart !

Comment by Nalai

I released a video where I explain how I managed to get exalted with the Order of Cloud Serpent within 5-6 hours after Blizzard nerfed the spawn rate of the Onyx Eggs.

Honestly this is not a genius strategy, but after realizing how many people fail to see such a simple trick I decided to release the video. Hope you enjoyed it, and please like and share the video if you did.

If you don't have friends on a low population realm then just make a lvl 1 character on one of the servers, type /who 90 and hope that someone is friendly enough to help you out.

Comment by Nalai

I released a video where I explain how I managed to get exalted with the Order of Cloud Serpent within 5-6 hours after Blizzard nerfed the spawn rate of the Onyx Eggs.

Honestly this is not a genius strategy, but after realizing how many people fail to see such a simple trick I decided to release the video. Hope you enjoyed it, and please like and share the video if you did.

If you don't have friends on a low population realm then just make a lvl 1 character on one of the servers, type /who 90 and hope that someone is friendly enough to help you out.

Comment by ullrapollo

I can accept all of the dailies but the Trainer's Challenge...not sure if I missed anything...any suggestions?

Comment by Gizmok

You guys should try doing emotes at your hatchlings, they emote back! (on some emotes, at least)

I found 3 which works so far:

/hug /love/pet

So cute.

Comment by Teahc

I have a question for anyone grinding exalted on a second character. I am exalted on a JC, and recently went to farm eggs on my main. First egg, wasnt able to click. So i went back to The Arboretum, figuring I needed to complete start up quests. I remembered that when I realized the Cloud Serpent mounts are not account wide, that I abandoned the quests for Order of Cloud Serpent. So I went to Shrine, and found that the Order quest giver there had nothing to give me, other than the "how to" and "why" chat.

Has anyone faced this problem? At this time, i have an open ticket. I cannot get the start quest, or any dailies. I can get chat from NPCs at The Arboretum, that would suggest I am I am recognized as somoene trying to gain faction... But no quests...

Thanks

Comment by greg01851

Nice looking mounts, but I won't be using mine much, they almost give you motion sickness if you are watching the screen while flying. I also get a lot of the 'you are flying' messages if trying to land (i.e. for dark soil or other gathering).

Comment by Nicodaemus

Once you get exalted with the Order of the Cloud Serpents you get your "free" serpent mount that you helped raise. If you have alts you plan to grind rep with as well so they can learn how to fly cloud serpents, then do NOT buy the other colored serpents with your main character once they become available at exalted. Once your alts start the quest line, just choose a different colored serpent for them to raise, and when they are done you will get a different colored serpent for "free" when they hit exalted and save yourself the 2,100+ gold each you would have spent buying the other colored serpents. Hopefully this will save some of you the thousands of gold I wasted myself before I realized this.

Comment by forestsage

Has anybody cared to notice how violently your character rocks while flying your cloud serpent? It makes you wonder if the serpent is physically capable of being rid. lol I feel so sorry for my character while riding it!

Comment by ns88

i just got exalted with these guys, but is it possible some way to get the reputation to 999 exalted ? ocd much y i know

Comment by BaineECooper

I call BS! Why is it when you die you're stranded on that little island? I just tried to kill a swarm of bees for a daily, and was killed because my cooldowns wouldn't pop. I see no way of retrieving my corpse, so I am forced to waste time and ressurect, jump down (Which is only a height I as a Rouge can make), and take the kite up there.

Comment by majishun144

Random, but anyone else notice you can summon these mounts underwater and that they have a different animation while underwater? Makes sense, as they're serpents. Just thought it was interesting.

Comment by AkaraBWR

If you still have unanswered questions after reading the comments on this page, I hope this guide is somewhat helpful to you. Thanks :)

Comment by killerofhell

why i cant get racing quests im busy with it for a week at revered but still no racing dailies

Comment by hazyfantazie

While it has been mentioned here, I strongly recommend everybody buys the order of the Cloud Serpent reputation boost at revered, it is not just twice as fast but possibly three to four times as quick. in just one day of doing the quests, no onyx eggs, i have an alt 400 points shy of revered, on my first toon i think it took almost a week, this is is because you get higher than normal rep quests at certain points, which accelerates your reputation when doubled.

For those trying to find it, it is on the second page of the quartermasters good for sale sheets.They are available other factions too, the Golden Lotus and the Tillers I have seen.

Comment by Hashis

Tip from revered to exalted...buy the grand commendation as soon as you hit revered...will get you to exalted 2x faster...100% bonus on rep gain :)

Hazyfantazie beat me to it ..sry bout that heh:)

Comment by Kelsen

I just finished grinding this with my second toon. I had selected the Azure Cloud Serpent for the second toon, and in fact was rewarded with the "Reins of the Azure Cloud Serpent".

However, having clicked on the 'Reins" (and having that icon disappear from my bags), that serpent is not in my mounts. Only the serpent I had won with my first toon is available (the Golden Cloud Serpent). I know that I finished properly, because my second toon can now ride that Golden Cloud Serpent.

Has anyone else experienced this, or alternately, can you say for certain that the Azure Cloud Serpent should be available to me?

I did log all the way out of the game and back in. No love.

Comment by tonydizzle

Took me 4 days from Neutral to Exalted once I got the Grand Commendation of the Order of the Cloud Serpent with no eggs whatsoever. Unless you don't plan to have 3 level 90s, or are really impatient, you can save yourself a bit of gold by just doing the dailies on three toons and not buying any of the mounts, but instead picking a different one for each of the three toons.

Comment by sforzie

It might be worth noting that, by the time you're getting exalted with the Order for the fourth time, you no longer have any new serpents to learn. (Well, that should be obvious if you've gotten a different colored serpent the first three times.) Fear not! The mount you get from completing the last quest (that gives you the riding skills) functions the same as the mount bought from the vendor, and can be sold to a vendor for 750g.

Comment by Yazzi

With the commendation purchased on a previous character, I reached exalted 4 hours after I hit 90 today on my 3rd 90 character and got the last serpent (green) I needed for the trio. I did all the quests and then got eggs to revered, did the reset quests and then got more eggs to exalted. It was really easy even with others egg hunting as well. I just queued for heroics between searches (tank insta queue) and it was easy as pie!

Comment by SammiLynn82

I got exalted today, it took me about a week, or so less. i didn't turn in any eggs, actually didn't know i could. but i did all dailies every day other then the arch one because i wasn't high enough. but it was alittle hard doing quests some times because there were a lot of people doing them too. Dailies took me about 20 minutes every day. im happy i finally have my azure cloud serpent! When i hit revered i got the 100% rep bonus..helped A LOT! only 35g for me. (only have to buy one to help every day and every toon working with that rep! some people think you need to buy one every day!(but you don't) It wasn't hard to do! GL fellow mount collectors! 122/150 to go! =] PS- you can only fly your cloud serpent on any toons that have cloud serpent flying! -SammiHello i am now flying high with my cloud serpents on two of my toons! =] my first toon took about a week with having grand commendation of the order of the cloud serpent token, that helped to the point i gained the rest of my rep within a few days. my second toon took about 2 days, and about maybe 4 hours total. i did all the quests to start you of, and the ones you do when you hit honored and revered. i collected 7 or 8 eggs and had that token from before. found the eggs on mountains, behind trees, ect. Also for the second toon i used the WHEE buff from The Darkmoon Fair. (10%rep/xp bonus)...can't wait to see more people flying around! hope this helps, if you have any questions ask away! =] -Sammi

Comment by SammiLynn82

Hello i am now flying high with my cloud serpents on two of my toons! =] my first toon took about a week with having grand commendation of the order of the cloud serpent token, that helped to the point i gained the rest of my rep within a few days. my second toon took about 2 days, and about maybe 4 hours total. i did all the quests to start you of, and the ones you do when you hit honored and revered. i collected 7 or 8 eggs and had that token from before. found the eggs on mountains, behind trees, ect. Also for the second toon i used the WHEE buff from The Darkmoon Fair. (10%rep/xp bonus)...can't wait to see more people flying around! hope this helps, if you have any questions ask away! =] -Sammi

Comment by Thalle

I did not see a comment specifically about this, hopefully I did not miss it if there is one.

If you are planning to level alts and fly serpents on them as well it may prove smart with your wallet to not buy the two serpents you do not get your first time around. What I mean is, on any character you would like to ride this type of mount you must get exalted with Order of the Cloud Serpent for Cloud Serpent Riding skill first. The mounts themselves are account bound, so if you grind the rep on a total of three characters you will get all three of the mounts without having spent anything to do so.

Hopefully this saves someone some money, as they are over 2k gold per choice of color.

Comment by Celestri

My main got exalted in 2-3 weeks, doing all profession dailys but the first aid one, during 5.0.

Once 5.1 released, I flew around and bought the reputation boosting commendations from every faction.

I just hit 90 today with my 2nd character, went to start these dailys. I was surprised to start at 0/6000 friendly.

With said 2nd character, I did every profession daily except for the archaeology daily. I also had the Darkmoon Faire +10% reputation buff. I was surprised to not only get to honored, but revered, in the very first day. My 2nd character is now sitting at 10260/21k towards exalted. That is 28260 reputation gained in the first day.

I did not find any eggs.

If this is "working as intended", then thank you blizzard for removing the rep grind for alts, at least with this faction.

Comment by Pops715

Very easy to do and only took me a couple of days. Not sure how but I guess from doing quests in the area, I was already halfway through 'Honered' with the Order of the Cloud Serpent when I chose my egg and started doing the dailies. Learned about the Onyx Eggs entirely by accident when I found several and turned them in. After that I started collecting them, since I was finding them all over the island. Once you get "Revered', be sure to buy this:

Grand Commendation of the Order of the Cloud SerpentItem Level 1Binds when picked upUse: Unlocks 100% bonus reputation gain with the Order of the Cloud Serpent for all characters on this account.Requires Order of the Cloud Serpent - Revered

It will give you DOUBLE the reputation points for each egg (1200 instead of 600) and each quest. I went from 'Revered' to 'Exalted' entirely from Onyx Eggs in no time at all. If you pick a night and get up really early when very few people are on, you can usually fly around and find about 10 or so eggs in a matter of minutes. 10 eggs x 1200 = 12,000 reputation points!

Comment by Traelle

I don't know if anyone have posted nor mentioned this yet.But upon getting "Eggsalted",, and doing it on another char (In my case human) (ie: for United Nations, after having used Grand Commendation of the Order of the Cloud Serpent, it only takes a couple hours to get "Eggsalted" again.Doing all the quests, (Fishing, Archaeology, cooking etc), will bring you to: 9370/21000 (without guild perk).After all this, all you need, is getting 10 eggs (1150 each), wich is easier now than in the start, as there's not many people doing it anymore.

Hope it's usefull to someone.

Comment by Sequnix

I just found out a neat little trick with Cloud Serpents while swimming.

If you're underwater in a zone where sea floor movement is enabled (Sea Legs) (Like in Vashj'ir, or Thousand Needles) and if you're standing on the bottom, you can mount up your Cloud Serpent and you'll get your full flying speed underwater! It grants you 80% more movement speed than your Vashj'ir Seahorse. This only works with Cloud Serpents!

I accidentally found out about this when I was doing quests for my Seeker achievement. I was underwater when I noticed the icon of my mount wasn't greyed out like the other mounts. I clicked it and at first I was at default swimming speed, but when I hit the bottom and went back up again, I had the full speed which was 451% with master riding (compared to 371% for Seahorses).

I am not sure if this is a bug or if it's intended to work this way. All I know is it was pretty awesome swimming next to other players on their Seahorses... except a lot faster! Had a lot of angry Whispers that day.

Comment by jjbovenzi

I've found that I can ride my flying mounts underwater as well and move much quicker so I don't think it's a bug but rather a "feature". :)

Comment by DerGole

Today I started with them on my first char. (Haven't played WoW for some while) I thought, with Guild Perk and the DMF buff it would be easy but I never thought it is that easy. I started doing the starting quests and the first set of dailies (maxed out professions help a lot here, or at least high enough to be able to do the profession quests)Of course I looked for eggs while I was doing the quests and after around 30 minutes I had 12 eggs. I turned them in, bought the Commendation (as I will have to do it again with my alt for the JC Mounts) and after the new "revered" quests, I am already at 10290/21000 - around 9 eggs from exalted (you get 1300 reputation with guild perk, DMF and commendation for an egg). Decided to continue later, to let the respawn happen. :) It is really easy getting your cloud serpent at the first day.

EDIT: My second char hit level 90 a couple of days ago, as I want all the mounts, I decided to get them by the quests for the order - took me around 6 hours, just because eggs didn't respawn fast enough and there was one other guy farming. My JC will be the third for this. Don't waste your Dungeon Reputation on this, take some faction like Golden Lotus or August Celestials for it.

Edit 2: My fourth char finally was my JC - and he took forever. Don't know why, but there were not much eggs in the area but I haven't seen anybody else in the area.

Comment by tehcardman

I just got my cloud serpent after around 7-8 hours grinding.I started this morning with the usual quests to start the daily line and then I started the first dailies.When I completed them I started farming Onyx Egg until I got to revered. Then I immediately got a Grand Commendation of the Order of the Cloud Serpent and did the extra dailies I unlocked. When these run out I started farming Onyx Egg again which at this point awarded 1.1k rep. After doing the revered dailies with the commendation enabled I needed only 11 eggs.

I was fortunate enough to have 2 friends of mine with lvl 90 characters on two different low pop servers who were kind enough to invite me to their group so I was essentially farming from 3 servers. If you don't have that bonus it's going to take longer and even longer if you are on a high population server.

It's one of the simplest factions to become exalted, you just have to have patience. And a couple of friends on different realms xD

Comment by Triip

I just got exalted in this in a few game hours. I simply started off by doing the preliminary quests, (when you choose your egg) then the following set of dailies. After this, I farmed 5 Onyx Eggs, and managed to get up too Revered, in which another set of dailies opened, I did another few quick egg runs and managed to pick up 3 more eggs. I logged off. Came back this morning, did the extra set of dailies, and due to it being early morning, easily picked up 6 extra eggs. I eventually only needed 4, and there you go. Exalted (:.

As previously mentioned, it is really easy to get this to exalted, but you either a) need to be patient or/and b) be an insomniac or/and c) be lucky.

Comment by Organthrone

And a handy little thing, if you've already got the three serpents on one character, when you receive yours with the riding on an alt, just vendor the mount for a quick 750g. Which was handy for my jewelcrafting alt in paying for the panther designs. Everybody wins.

Comment by LyssaWoW

Adding to what others have said, if you have a bit of free time, you can easily get exalted in a day or two, even for the first time without the Commendation. With a bit of luck, if you have been farming Huolon, you'll have a couple of the quivering eggs, which are Bind to battle.net Account, so if you really want it on one character, you can mail your eggs for a large rep boost. You can also farm the quivering eggs from the other Cloud Serpents for (which are, despite their fearsome abilities and 10mil healthpool, very easy to kill once you get a hang of positioning, hint, Flame Breath has a very interesting take on vertical position and the Fire Blossom thing seems to not be castable if you are on the edge of their hitbox, and standing at max range if you have the luxury of a pet tank means it will never target you at all) flying around near where Huolon spawns, but they do have a low drop rate, so unless you're lucky (I've had 4 in a row, followed by none for days), it's not reliable. But you do get to kill Huolon who spawns down the hill every 30-60mins, who regularly drops an egg. Once you have the commendation, things get a LOT easier on an alt, I went from friendly to exalted in a matter of hours with a bit of perseverance.

Doing the dailies and turning in the above I went from first contact with the Order to Exalted in a few days with a couple days spent farming the Crimsonscale Firestorms. I found a handful of the Onyx Eggs but no more since other people were hunting them.

On another note...

Turn aroundLook at what you seeIn her faceThe mirror of your dreams

Make believe I'm everywhereGiven in the lightWritten on the pagesIs the answer to a never ending story...

Comment by Sinjoel

Okey, so just as a little update as of patch 5.4 on how to get reputation with these guys the fastest.

I read around the comments and didn't find much about this insane farming spot I just used to get 24k rep in 2-3hrs of farming.

Basically you go to the Timeless Isle, run up and down the Blazing Way and kill all of the Crimsonscale Firestorm dragons you find. As a 564 wlock these dragons were fairly easy to solo, and I ended up with 21 Quivering Firestorm Eggs (1100 rep with Cloud Serpents for each turn in), 5 Pristine Firestorm Eggs (some timeless coins and gold per turn in) and 2 bags full of random timeless epics. Definitely well worth the time in my opinion as the Onyx Eggs was being farmed by others and hard to find (despite the various guides)

Also as a bonus, Houlon spawns nearby and he has a higher chance of dropping an egg. If you want to you can also kill Cinderfall whenever he spawns which is nearby as well. A little tip when you are starting out: There are many lootable "look-a-like" eggs on cliffs etc., they are not worth going for as they are usually fake and will only give you about 30-50 timeless coins.

Happy farming!

Comment by geekygirlish

You can start earning rep before you get to 90, and even better if you have an alt who already has the commendation. Just go and say hello to the trainer, she will tell you to go away and come back when you are more experienced, BUT, it will register that you now are friendly with the order of the Cloud Serpents. Then set your champion faction for daily dungeons for Order of the Cloud serpent, push the star next to them in the rep section of your character window. I think you get 600 a day and 900 with the commendation. So almost 1k rep a day for doing nothing other than a pug dungeon. When you finally hit 90 you'll have a head start to getting your mount.

I just want the jewelry recipe for the flying mount! Luckily that is only honoured.

Comment by elrandin

If you have a few alts this rep is not only easy and fun to do, but profitable. You can save money buying the other Serpents by choosing a different egg. Then if you have the 3 mounts already, starting from your 4th alt you can sell your Serpent that you already have for a whopping 750g while getting the Riding Skill you need anyway.

Comment by icausewipes

Just for kicks and giggles anyone can sell the mount from the reward for 750g. I had the mount from a previous toon so the xtra gold goes into the bank.

Merry Xmas

Comment by staron

How does this work amongst your alts? Do they all share the reputation somehow? You need to reach exalted to be able to fly the mount?

Comment by staron

I have now done this on 3-4 of my alts and I can say this. It is a horrible experience. Unless you really must fly one of these serpents, I would advise you to not bother. The daily quests get really monotonous after a while. Many WoW players these days have lots of alts, and it is crazy that one has to repeat all the same steps day after day. It is not even a progressive XP like farming in the Valley of Four Winds, where as your rep grows you can farm more and better things, just to keep things a bit more interesting. This reputation is either you have it or not.

The various alternative suggestions are mostly ridiculous. Spending hours on the Timeless Isle just to get eggs? Might as well watch paint dry! Go over to the Windward Isle to collect eggs? Well, unless you are the only player on your server, these eggs are very very rare. they have a ridiculously long re-spawn timer, which means that you can be circling for hours and not find any. It only takes one other player to have picked up the egg before you get there. My experience tells me that if you find eggs doing the route over the Isle, consider yourself extremely fortunate because they are not common at all and most importantly it is not a practical method to replace doing the boring dailies.

Of course if you are the person that has no problem spending hours circling looking for eggs, or farming serpents at the Timeless Isle, or doing dozens of daily quests, well.

One consolation is that you can sell your duplicate serpents for 750 gold each, but I'd rather pay 10 times as much to "buy" the skill from the vendor on my alts than having to spend a week farming, on each alt separately.

Comment by Zycomeans

I just finished of this rep grind on an alt, as of patch 5.4.7 and let me tell you. If you've bothered with going through the torture of grinding rep with these from before, I recommend you do it on an alt as well, so you can show off those nice dragons on all your toons!

What I did:I started the rep grind at 02.00 AM. I picked up the starting quest, quickly finished it off and grabbed the dailies.Once I had the dailies, I started frantically looking for the Onyx Egg every time I lifted off ground. During the first run, I managed to find 2 of them. this put me just beyond revered once I delivered in the dailies, which gave me a new set of dailies! I quickly finished of those dailies as well, having 10min to spare before the reset at 03.00 AM server time.After waiting for 10mins, my dailies where back, and so was I. I sat out to finish them quickly, as I spawned the tiny island for new eggs. I figured that the reset was bound to have re-spawn a few eggs, and I was right! I managed to find 3 Onyx Egg in about 3minutes. after delivering in the dailies for the 2nd time, and the 3 eggs I found, I was only 3 bars away from exalted! At this point, I remembered that I had a few Quivering Firestorm Egg stowed away on a different toon. I sent those to my alt and delivered them all inn, and by then I had hit exalted in less than 2 hours.

Now, when it comes to egg farming, I would recommend you farm the Quivering Firestorm Egg.while the Onyx Egg gives 1100 (+550 bonus) the firestorm egg gives 2200 (+1100 bonus)That means you need a lot less eggs to farm up rep than needed before!

If you are new to the rep farming, I wish you luck with the grinding, and advice you to farm the Quivering Firestorm Egg on timeless isle, as you would need only about 25/30 of them to go from neutral to exalted. And remember to buy the commendation once you hit revered for a quick finish!

Comment by Skracher

One of the absolute worst rep grinds I've come across. Short of finding those eggs everyone else seems to know about that I never see, the dailys are horrible! First off I want to play a game where I am killing stuff. The saurok quests aren't bad that's about what I'd expect. Most of the others suck. Number one, I "HATE" fishing. Bad enough I have to fish for the Anglers to get the panda kite but now I have to feed the little lizard a bunch of minnows and fish cakes. What's wrong with red meat? I'd rather travel all the way to Dun Morogh and stomp sheep heads in then have to cast one more line. Anything in this game involving water makes me want to put a bullet in my head. I don't quest in Vashjir, I don't fish and I don't drink mana. Lastly the monkey quest where you fight your way through 300 enraged drunk monkeys is pretty grueling in itself. I think Blizzard really failed on this faction and can only hope the new xpac isn't full of more daily grinds for rep. Takes any enjoyment out of the game when all you do to keep up is the same monotonous quests over and over.

Comment by mrbubbles360

I know it says 500 to 600 rep per Daily at Revered +, but if you grab the commendation from the QM and have the guild perks it becomes much higher than that. I'm sitting at 10k rep from Exalted and I didn't start all that long ago. Should hit it with in the next 2 to 4 days I would think.

Comment by freeksharkhd

I just got my hatchling and he doesn't have any dailies for me. Is it because I have to wait until tomorrow for them to start or am I missing something?

Comment by menace97

Here is some information that will hopefully help others that are in my situation, and have received the skill Cloud Serpent Riding on alts and have gone through this task "the old fashion way" and are embarking upon getting the skill for an alt. Thankfully now, having gathered enough Quivering Firestorm Eggs on the Timeless Isle, I went from having no reputation to Exalted quite easily. I already had acquired all of the mounts they had to offer, I purchased their beautiful tabard, but I still could not seem acquire the skill Cloud Serpent Riding. After speaking to ALL of the instructors, trainers and EVERY NPC in the Arboretum region... and not finding out who to speak to next, I came here. One comment suggested that this skill was now automatically learned, well I can say that was not so for me - I wish!

It was very frustrating that NOT ONE NPC in the Arboretum pointed me in the right direction! I honestly couldn't remember who I had spoken to before, so I contacted Blizzard. They suggested I fly out to the Windward Isle and speak with Instructor Tong (65.4,31.6).

I hope this helps others in the same situation, as I feel there should be SOME sort of direction given by somebody at the Arboretum in case you haven't been there in a while to remember what you had done previously. Hopefully Blizzard will perhaps add a simple dialog to NPCs saying something like: "Fly out to Windward Isle and look for Instructor Tong, he'll show you what to do next!"

Comment by TriggerHappi54

From absolutely no rep to Exalted, it took me 8 Onyx Eggs and 4 Quivering Firestorm Eggs (drop off the Cloud Serpents on Timeless Isle) plus the opening quests, flight training quests, and the first daily your serpent gives you after you hit Revered. If you don't have QFEs, it will take 16 Onyx Eggs plus the quests, which take around 10 minutes tops.

Comment by Mondoblasto

Cloud Serpent Riding has been removed in the 6.0.2 pre-patch as a requirement for Cloud Serpents. They now work like any other mount.

Comment by thycondrius

Cloud Serpent Riding has been removed in the 6.0.2 pre-patch as a requirement for Cloud Serpents. Finally, ty blizz!

Comment by Veilor

Apparently the riding skill is removed as I was surpirsed when my random mount addon took out a cloud serpent for my newly dinged lvl 90 alt. I looked through the book and couldn't find it there either.

Comment by sabbybearloc

So happy that last night I was able to get my rep to Revered and have my first Cloud Serpent. Thanks to this guide! I am a fairly new player and this guide helped me a lot :)

Comment by Random0009

At level 100 you can do it in one single afternoon, as I did. I made about 36-37k in few hours. Just do the starter quests and finish the first dailies from your hatchling. Then move to Timeless and farm Quivering Firestorm Eggs from Crimsonscale Firestorms, they yield 1k per egg. Don't forget to check your rep all the times, once you are revered you can buy Commendation. Quivering eggs then give 2k of reputation. Do some quests while revered and quit when you have to fly through the race track, and move to the Timeless again and farm as many eggs as you need. Drop rate is quite ok, just dont give up if they don't drop for you for a longer time (you can get 4 eggs by 4 kills later, as me :-)). Boom, easy 3 mounts, just give it few hours. Don't forget Huolon, once you are there. He laso drops eggs, but your priority should be trying your luck for Thundering Onyx Serpent... :-) (if you don't have one, ofc...)

Comment by Illiphar

This rep currently as of posting DOES NOT WORK FOR DEMON HUNTERS. Do not bother handing in your quivering firestorm eggs, you won't get any rep and the dailies don't spawn for this faction either.

Order of the Cloud Serpent

If you want to ride any of the fancy new cloud serpent mounts in Mists, you'll need to get exalted with this faction. Gaining reputation is pretty fun: it's a mix of Netherwing and Wintersaber Trainers. You'll start off with a cloud serpent egg and raise the hatched serpent to maturity, doing daily quest that involve competitive races along the way.

Gaining Reputation

Order of the Cloud Serpent is similar to Wintersaber/Venomsaur mounts because you help raise a cloud serpent from egg to maturity, completing quests that help the cloud serpent grow. It's also similar to Netherwing because there are challenging races for rewards, profession-related dailies, and eggs hidden around the island for additional reputation. And like all the factions mentioned above, you're rewarded with a mount at the end!

Beginning this reputation grind can only be accessed by level 90 players. After talking to NPCs at the Arboretum in the Jade Forest, you'll help fend off Saurok threats on the Cloud Serpent's home, Windward Isle. At this point, you'll choose which color serpent to raise with Choosing the One.

When you get to Revered, quests will focus on defeating rival cloud serpent trainers (The Trainer's Challenge: Ace Longpaw), and occasionally, going on exciting races! This racetrack is not as challenging as Netherwing Ledge, but there are ways to still optimize your path. These quests are roughly 500-600 reputation each.